I can't decide how this UNC job will go. Could go really good (since college football is now pro football, maybe a coach like Belichick will be great), or it might go really badly (he can't connect at all with 18, 19, 20 year old young men). My gut leans toward it going bad.

They'll surely point out: bitcoin has no intrinsic use. A house you can live in, you can use a phone, you can make gold jewelry, but you can't do anything with bitcoin.

That's when you pull out a sack of Steak n Shake burgers and fries. You say, "I'll sell you a burger if you pay me with your house, phone, or wedding band."

My understanding of Ostrom's work is this: the tragedy of the commons doesn't go away, but we can do better. Historically, the solution to the tragedy has been regulation from on high...an authority (government) metes out a law: thou shalt only have one cow in the commons per household. Punishment is issued for violators.

As I understand, Ostrom said local communities can better self-regulate than a distant authority from somewhere far away. Self-regulation, self-rules, self-enforcement by the locals is more optimal. You still can't herd a 100 cows on the commons, but maybe you can have two for your family of four because your neighbor who lives alone doesn't need an entire cow and you've agreed to share some of your milk with the neighbor.

In a very short while, "vibe coding" will be a bygone phrase and it'll simply be called "coding".

Then, what will traditional, manual coding, be called? "ManCode" and "man coding"?

No doubt. I guess for me it's horse season when the KY Derby ramps up and I start paying attention. Figured I got to just finish the book. It's hard to read for me when I already know the rest of the story. Did learn stuff though. By the way if you like horses, I wrote about the good/bad of it a week or two ago. It's here: #973869

I just finished it last week. Started it years ago, finally got back to it. Great book, thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I liked Unbroken even better (book) and I don't know which movie I liked bettern both terrific.

Thanks, I'll look at it. But , I will say, I"m very, very hesitant about other-people's-books-about-the-Bible. Instead, I read the Bible. Still, thank you, and I will look.

I'm totally with you on this. Exactly why I don't like mixing the two, though I admittedly did it here. (They're still separate nevertheless.)

Never heard of this book, but cool. Might have to take a look.

I like the name sats. I suggested the "shi" symbol for it in 2017. And also "Satoshi Day."

Well, out of my four horses, the first three were in the money: Journalism, Gosger, and Sandman. Only Pay Billy was out (7th).

I kind of disagree that 16 years of bitcoin/sats can't be unlearned. First, given time, I think it can. Secondly, for newcomers, the new would simply be the norm. That said, the confusion would be when half the people are talking about 21M bitcoins and half are talking about 2.1Q bitcoins. That would be not good.

To be fair, I think the fact that sats are not in the whitepaper kind of is Carvalho's main point: what we call "sat" is the protocol-level bitcoin unit. I think setting it at 21M, with decimals, was something of a marketing move by Satoshi. 21M is (somewhat) manageable by the human brain, anything quadrillion is not.

Ever seen that movie "Kate and Leopold"? Good movie, good date movie, and I think somehow an elevator played a critical role, though I forgot how. Gotta revisit and rewatch. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0035423/

Words of wisdom right there. I will say this...my wife has excellent intuition. That sounds kind of sexist maybe, the whole "women's intuition" thing, but I believe it. Once we had car trouble, and she comes right out without looking at anything and is like, "I think it's the alternator." Understand, the car was doing something totally unrelated, like a clutch issue or something. I don't recall the exact symptom or problem, but her proposed problem had seemingly nothing at all to do with what the vehicle was showing. I wish I could recall what exactly it was, but when I got into fixing things, somehow she had been right. In the oddest way, something crazy like the clutch line broke loose and was wrapped around the alternator. That's not what happened, but I think you see my point. Somehow, without knowing, she still knew. I've learned to try to listen better even when it doesn't make sense to me.